Meteorology and climatology

This book provides climate students with the basic scientific background to climate change management.

This book describes the fundamental scientific principles underlying high quality instrumentation used for environmental measurements.

With weather conditions continually evolving, skippers need to factor forecast data into every passage plan and be prepared to modify it if the situation changes.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented in the International Conference Down To Earth 2019, and is focused on Water Security and Sustainability.

This book is a new and revised second edition of the book 'The Climate of the Arctic', published in 2003.

Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science.

This book describes essential concepts of, and the status quo in, the field of ionospheric space weather.

The thermodynamics of the atmosphere is the subject of severai chapters in most textbooks on dynamic meteorology, but there is no work in English to give the subject a specific and more extensive treatment.

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago.

This book provides an incisive and economic assessment of the global warming adaptation policy and programs carved out by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), by relying on the four scientific traditions that have been advanced on the economics of adaptation to climate change in agricultural and natural resource enterprises.

Launched jointly in 1997 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the JapanAerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a satellite missionthat placed a unique suite of instruments, including the first precipitation radar, in space.

While sponges represent a very simple group of organisms, which are represented by over 8000 species, there is considerable interest in the increasing role they may play in future marine ecosystems.

In Global Risk Agility and Decision Making, Daniel Wagner and Dante Disparte, two leading authorities in global risk management, make a compelling case for the need to bring traditional approaches to risk management and decision making into the twenty-first century.

This book provides information on sustainable water resource management strategies that present innovative ways to conserve both quality and quantity of water in developing countries.

This book gathers an in-depth collection of 45 selected papers presented at the Global Conference on Global Warming 2014 in Beijing, China, covering a broad variety of topics from the main principles of thermodynamics and their role in design, analysis, and the improvements in performance of energy systems to the potential impact of global warming on human health and wellbeing.

Have you ever wondered by how much CO2 emissions can be reduced by running cars electrically or with hydrogen as fuel?

The monograph focuses on agricultural meteorology and climate change and its impacts on different crops.

Methane plays many important roles in the earth's environment.

Weather provides a wide variety of stimuli for our senses.

Analysis of the physics and phenomena of the ionosphere for graduates, ionospheric physicists and radio engineers.

This book reviews the research in various fields of oceanography on the responses of the East Japan Sea to climate change.

This book delves into the invaluable contributions made by the Italian UNESCO Chairs toward addressing the intricate and pressing global challenges of our era.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the global climate change impacts caused by the continued use of fossil fuels, which results in enormous damage to the global environment, biodiversity, and human health.

This book focuses on the robustness analysis of high accuracy surface modeling method (HASM) to yield good performance of it.

Biodiversity loss in terrestrial environments associated with human activities has been appreciated as a major issue for some years now.

In recent years, significant advances in both the theoretical and observational sides of physical oceanography have allowed the ocean's physical behavior to be described more quantitatively.

The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains.

The Climate Change Debate: A Reference Handbook provides an in-depth look at climate change facts and statistics.

This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach - as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach.

This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change.

Provides an essential introduction to modeling terrestrial ecosystems in Earth system models for graduate students and researchers.

How to progress climate science to be policy-relevant and actionable?

Jose Maria Figueres Olsen Former President Republic of Costa Rica The heated debate about global climate change continues.

Revised and updated for the 2nd edition, this textbook provides an analysis and investigation of the most essential areas of environmental economic theory and policy, including international environmental problems.

General circulation models state that the central United States (and other mid-latitude continental regions) will become warmer and drier as the result of greenhouse warming.

This book highlights the need for effective water governance in India given the fact that the country has been facing serious water stress in recent years.

In 2013 several scientific activities have been devoted to mathematical researches for the study of planet Earth.

Where will the water come from to sustain the great desert cities of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Phoenix?

This report addresses the transition of research satellites, instruments, and calculations into operational service for accurately observing and predicting the Earth's environment.

The Environmental and climatic issues varies from continent to continent and is unique to Asia.

Why a warmer climate may be humanity's longest-lasting legacyThe human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease.

Satellite Observations to Benefit Science and Society: Recommended Missions for the Next Decade brings the next ten years into focus for the Earth and environmental science community with a prioritized agenda of space programs, missions, and supporting activities that will best serve scientists in the next decade.

This book summarizes studies on climate and ecosystem change adaptation and resilience in Africa (CECAR-Africa), a collaboration with the goal of creating an integrated resilience enhancement strategy as a potential model for semi-arid regions across Sub-Saharan Africa by combining climate change and ecosystem change research.

This book lays out a science plan for a major, international, 15-year research program.

The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of the Carpathian Basin) between 1000 and 1500 AD.

The book contains suggestion on suitable crop rotations for salt-affected soils to maximize the productivity of lands and water under current climate and under climate change in 2030.